1. MONDAY SEPTEMBER 16 WEEK 3 & 4 English 9 A

2. Monday September 16 New vocabulary #3 check study Tool Quizlet??? Norsemom Vocabulary Due Tuesday start of hour Journal #4 Kid President: Respond to the video clip… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwlhUcSGqgs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwlhUcSGqgs GRAMMAR~ define … complete for tomorrow Spider Legs: List and define parts of speech on hand out/ in class assignment…

3. Monday Definition to be used as a answer on test. Grammar is the whole system and structure of rules for a language.

4. Tuesday September 17 Correct Vocabulary #3 Go over 8 parts of speech Give tip to remember 8 parts of speech Intro to diagramming A couple practice diagrams Intro to The Odyssey: Themes challenges & character Read in class pages 887, 888 and 895

5. Eight parts of speech 3 rd hour class notes Interjection: shows emotion( a word or phrase) Verb: expresses an action or state of being Adverb: modifies a verb or adjective or another adverb (often ends in ly) Noun: a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea ( or quality or action) Conjunction: connects words, phrases, and simple sentences Adjective: describes a noun or pronoun or limits the meaning Pronoun: a word that takes the place of a noun Preposition: it relates one word to another; shows the relationship between a noun and a pronoun

6. Eight parts of speech 5 th hour Notes Interjection: a word or phrase used to express emotion Verb: words that express action, condition, or state of being Adverb: modifies a verb, adjectives, or other adverb (often ends in ly) Noun: a word that names a person place or idea Conjunction: connects words or groups of words, clauses, phrases, and simple sentences Adjective: modifies or limits the meaning of a noun or pronoun Pronoun: is a word used in place of noun or another pronoun Preposition: shows the relationship of noun or pronoun and another word in a sentence

7. Eight parts of speech 6 th hour Notes Interjection: word or phrase used to express emotion Verb: an action, a condition, or state of being Adverb: modifies a verb, adjective or adverb: (often ends in ly) Noun: person, place thing or idea Conjunction: joins words, phrases, clauses & simple sentences Adjective: modifies or limits the meaning of a noun or pronoun Pronoun: a word used in place of a noun or another pronoun Preposition: a word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun

8. Wednesday September 18 Intro to diagramming The dog ran home. A couple practice diagrams HOW WOULD BEGIN TIO DIAGRAM THIS SENTENCE? WHAT QUESTIONS DO YOU ASK? ( 5th hour did not start Cornell notes)

9. The Basics! How to gain points diagramming!!! Baseline : required (written words do not hang in the air!!!) Divide: Subject: always on the left Predicate: always on the right ______________[_____________ NOTE: divide is just a straight line no little hook on top

10. Wednesday September 18,2013 Journal #5 Although they may not be an epic hero, _______ is a hero to me. WHY? WHY? WHY? Give Examples Full Page

11. Wednesday September 18 The Odyssey by Homer translated by Robert Fitzgerald Cornell Notes Read The Odyssey 886-893 in class Plan… read to page 915

12. Norse Notes I want one more column to the far right for page numbers and web locations( reference made easy !! )

13. Thursday September 19,2013 Vision testing ½ of 3 rd hour. Hand out Pink Diagramming packets Page One HW if not done in class: Ask students to underline simple subject once underline simple predicate twice circle any prepositional phrases Then create a baseline with only the simple subject and simple predicate shift |key next The boy swam. ____boy|__swam__ The Norse are strong. ____Norse|___are strong__

14. Cornell Note Norse Notes(Ex. How to take notes) Main Points NotesPage # Web site… Age of Homer’s Epic Poem 800BC 2013+800= 2813 years oldPg 887 The Odyssey One of the greatest masterpieces of epic formPg 887 Epic Poem A long narrative poem about a hero who reflects the ideals and values of a nation or race Page 890 OdysseusCrafty Greek!! Master minded the end of the Trojan War by offering a Trojan Horse ( tricked them) Page 890 Epic Hero“a larger than life figure, usually male, who embodies the ideals of a nation or race.” Page 890 Epic Simile An elaborated simile: extends for several lines( a comparison using like or as…) Page 891 Book OneInvocation ( cast of characters listed 889)Page 895

15. Thursday September 19 The Odyssey Cornell Note taking: keep it simple, clean & specific HW: 1. Study 8 parts of speech for quiz Friday 2. Lesson 3 Quiz Friday~ use Quizlet tool to study 3. Review pages 886-891 4. Bring Biography/Autobiography for free reading

16. Friday September 20 Quiz Check for diagramming of baseline page one Free reading Conferencing with teacher individually: may only get through a few people….

17. Monday September 23 New Vocabulary due Tuesday ~ Quiz Friday Diagramming New packet page 1, skip page 6, complete page 8 The Odyssey: Book 9

18. Book 9 The Odyssey/New Coasts & Poseidon’s Son Main?Key Point NOTESPage # OdysseusLaertes’ son home is IthacaPage 896 Love of Home “I shall not see on earth a place more dear”896 Circe challenges him Odysseus stays true to his wife, ‘”my heart never gave consent” She overpowered him. 896 Lotus Eaters “honeyed plant, the lotus, never cared to report, nor return….forgetful of their homeland” 897 Odysseus saves his men “ I drove them all wailing to the ships tied them down…no one had taste of the lotus” 898 Cyclopes“Giants…without law…ignorance…no plow …no tribal ways” 898 Cyclopes“ A prodigious man” enormous, Hugh899

19. Notes Page Odysseus character clever “ one cupful-ruby colored…in twenty more of water …no man turned away when cups came around” “I brought along a victuals in a bag” (Cyclops try some wine”904) 899 Weakness/ Curiosity refused sound advice of his men= “Take these cheeses get them stowed, put out again on good salt water” 900 Cyclops doesn’t care for Gods “ We Cyclops care not a whistle for your thundering Zeus”902 CyclopesPoseidon’s ( god of the sea and earthquakes) son889 CyclopesEats Odysseus’s men ( & they are stuck in the cave)903 CleverGives the wine to Cyclopes CleverCalls himself “Nobdy…my name is Nohbdy”906

20. Tuesday September 24 Correct Vocabulary 4 Diagramming The Odyssey Continued Begin packet HW for 3 rd hour (page 6 Skill Builder Epic Hero)

21. Notes Tuesday September 24 Key PointPage 908 Plan: Skill of Odysseus “I tied them silently…slung a man under each belly…sheepskin” to hide his men Weakness: Proud Brags “ Tell him Odysseus raider of cities took your eye” 911 Personification Human qualities to a non human thing “young Dawn with fingertips of rose touched the world” 913